The only way we will ever get a conservative presidential canidate is to change the primary system. We need to schedule the primaries in the order of the states with the largest percentage of votes for the the Republican in the last election i.e. Oklahoma and Texas would go before IA and NH.
I agree with you on changing the primaries for the republican party.
But what do you think the chances of that happening are? It’s like being the fan of a team with an AWFUL or choking coach or quarterback. You may not know the outcome of changing these positions but you know there is no way it could be any worse and it’s so magnified by the fact of its prominence.
I sometimes wonder if the party’s leadership is invested in a shell game rather than in truly promoting the principles they claim to hold.
The FIRST thing that should have happened after the loss (still time I guess) is to change the primary system RADICALLY.
I understand having a longer contest so that a candidate ‘proves’ himself on a starter-campaign trail but there’s no way it should start in Iowa or have anything to do with New Hampshire, a state which is now reliably liberal anyway.
And close off the damn primaries, there’s no reason for Democrats or independents to vote in the GOP primary except for them to pull their own Operation Chaos on the GOP, which I’d argue has been done far more than the reverse.